taste of the browns & your chance to attend

Here we go Brownies, here we go.

I am a big Browns fan. Huge. What Clevelander isn’t, right? I grew up a tom boy and followed football and this team for as long as I can remember (and pretended to be Bernie Kosar in my neighborhood after school football games growing up).

We love and passionately root for all our sports teams here, but let’s face it – this is Browns town. And in the past decade especially, this die hard football town has happily become overrun by foodies galore with new places eagerly willing to feed us every day. So when the two collide, look out. And throw in an incredibly worthy cause and you have all the makings of a great event.

The 12th annual Cleveland FoodbankTaste of the Browns takes place on Monday, Sept. 13 at Cleveland Browns Stadium. Attendees will mix and mingle with current and former Cleveland Browns players, while 25 independent restaurants share some of their favorite dishes. Food and football aside, the underlying cause of this event is even more important – raising valuable dollars for the Cleveland Foodbank, which provides food to more than 600 hunger programs in six counties. Last year’s event raised $117,000, which translates to almost half a million meals.

Did you know that for ever $1 raised, no matter the method, the Cleveland Foodbank can provide enough food for four nutritious meals? Tickets are $150 (all proceeds benefit the Foodbank and the fight against hunger). That’s 604 meals you just provided.

Hungry? You can buy tickets here. I also have a pair to giveaway. If you’d like a chance to win them, just leave a comment to this post with your guess for the Browns’ record this year and what year you think they will make it to the Superbowl. And they will make it.

I will pick a winner via random.org on Friday, 9/27 by noon. By the way, 10-6 and 2013.

WOW, 10-6? I hope you’re right. It will make it a lot easier to go to the games in late Dec & early Jan (season ticket holder in the dawg pound). I am not quite as optimistic but I’ll say 8-8 and the super bowl in 2013.

…and they will get a super bowl berth–however it will be in the year of the apocalypse, 2012 A.D.–so they won’t actually get to go. (It will be some consolation that the city of Pittsburg and the entire Steelers team will be sucked into the lava-fileld bowels of the earth.)

…however, Mangini will survive, and will raise his team from the ashes to defeat the New Philadelphia Dolphins in the first NeoNFL Championship in 1 P.A. (that’s post apocalypse).